CB360 Composite National Rankings #14 (5/18/11)

The three-team deadlock atop the SEC East Division is mirrored in the latest update of the CB360 Composite National Rankings (CNR), which currently incorporates 15 different elements averaged into a 100-point scale that has #2 Florida (92.23), #3 South Carolina (96.07) and #4 Vanderbilt (95.74) separated by only 0.49 points. Virginia now has held down the top spot in the CNR for seven straight weeks, while Florida State has surged from #7 to #5. front-page photo courtesy of Central Florida

The top-10 teams in the CNR remain unchanged, with Texas bumping up from #8 to #6, Oregon State slipping back a spot to #7 and Arizona State falling from #5 to #8 (#9 North Carolina and #10 Georgia Tech retained their positions). The top-10 continues to feature four ACC teams and the “power trio” from the SEC, plus a pair of Pac-10 teams and one each from the Big 12. Using the CNR to project the hypothetical #1 seeds in the NCAAs (16), there would be five ACC teams, three each from the SEC and Big 12, and one each from Conference USA, the Big West and the Mountain West.

Surging Florida International – which a month ago was not even ranked among the CB360 top-50 – is riding a 16-game unbeaten streak while rising to #23 in the CNR.

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College Baseball 2011 Composite National Rankings #14 (CNR)courtesy of CollegeBaseball360.com; May 18, 2011

RANK

TEAM

POINTS

WEEK-12

WEEK-11

WEEK-10

WEEK-9

WEEK-8

Week-7

Week-6

Week-5

Week-4

Week-3

Week-2

Week-1

2011 Preseason

1

Virginia

98.91

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

4

11

13

14

15

2

Florida

96.23

4

4

4

3

2

2

3

1

1

1

1

2

2

3

South Carolina

96.07

3

3

2

2

4

4

4

6

5

4

5

7

9

4

Vanderbilt

95.74

2

2

3

4

3

3

2

3

2

2

2

3

4

5

Florida State

93.17

7

6

9

10

9

7

7

5

3

5

6

10

12

6

Texas

91.72

8

8

12

9

11

13

12

7

10

12

11

6

6

7

Oregon State

90.82

6

7

7

8

13

19

20

21

30

36

38

39

44

8

Arizona State

90.79

5

5

5

12

8

5

5

4

8

6

7

8

10

9

North Carolina

89.63

9

10

11

6

5

8

10

14

15

16

21

23

30

10

Georgia Tech

89.57

10

9

8

11

10

9

8

11

19

20

25

24

23

11

Texas A&M

88.00

12

11

6

7

6

6

6

8

13

17

15

15

14

12

Cal State Fullerton

87.98

13

12

10

5

7

12

11

17

11

7

10

11

8

13

TCU

85.34

14

15

14

19

17

17

13

15

12

9

9

4

3

14

Oklahoma

84.52

17

18

16

18

15

11

14

9

6

3

3

5

5

15

Clemson

83.33

16

19

22

25

26

27

22

16

9

8

8

9

7

16

Southern Mississippi

83.06

11

13

15

16

18

15

16

28

38

-

41

45

46

17

Rice

81.42

18

22

23

15

24

28

29

27

24

18

18

18

17

18

Fresno State

81.15

21

14

13

13

12

10

9

12

14

19

19

31

32

19

Arkansas

79.03

19

21

21

14

14

25

24

26

18

22

26

27

29

20

Stetson

78.84

15

16

19

20

19

23

23

36

37

-

-

-

-

21

Miami

77.40

20

17

17

21

28

39

50

30

46

24

19

20

22

Connecticut

71.15

25

25

35

46

45

44

-

-

29

28

28

20

16

23

Florida International

69.36

32

39

46

-

-

-

-

-

-

49

-

-

-

24

Arizona

67.25

26

26

27

23

22

22

18

19

16

14

17

17

18

25

UC Irvine

66.86

27

31

33

28

31

29

28

24

26

23

22

28

28

26

Oklahoma State

66.66

22

20

20

17

21

24

41

40

38

44

-

-

27

Stanford

66.01

23

23

18

26

16

14

15

13

17

15

12

12

13

28

California

64.92

28

24

24

22

23

18

21

23

23

24

20

26

24

29

UCLA

64.07

24

27

25

24

25

21

19

20

21

10

4

1

1

30

Central Florida

61.87

38

41

34

47

40

-

34

38

45

41

43

45

47

31

Kent State

61.59

33

30

39

50

33

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

42

32

Mississippi State

60.23

35

45

32

36

38

-

33

49

-

-

-

-

-

33

East Carolina

60.00

37

29

29

30

34

31

38

35

42

-

50

47

–

34

Texas State

57.80

39

42

36

31

37

30

39

41

-

-

-

-

35

Auburn

57.71

36

38

28

27

35

38

31

18

27

21

23

22

22

36

Troy

57.37

31

34

26

33

20

26

30

37

3

44

-

47

–

37

LSU

56.84

41

35

40

32

27

16

17

10

7

13

14

16

19

38

Alabama

55.80

30

33

45

37

30

20

26

-

-

48

39

34

37

39

Coastal Carolina

55.25

34

32

41

41

44

42

33

31

32

35

21

21

40

Elon

54.57

40

40

38

38

48

47

43

-

48

-

-

-

-

41

Creighton

54.45

45

36

44

35

49

48

-

-

-

42

-

-

-

42

Georgia

53.86

29

28

30

29

29

34

-

-

50

-

-

-

-

43

North Carolina State

53.73

42

37

31

42

48

44

East Tennessee

53.07

43

-

-

44

32

35

47

42

39

-

-

-

-

45

Baylor

52.39

46

46

-

43

47

41

25

25

20

30

31

30

25

46

Dallas Baptist

50.07

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

47

Southeastern Louisiana

49.86

48

43

47

-

46

-

-

40

34

-

34

-

-

48

Mississippi

49.56

44

-

42

39

42

33

37

34

32

37

32

38

43

49

Jacksonville

49.24

-

-

48

48

50

-

-

50

-

-

-

-

-

50

Gonzaga

50.53

47

-

34

39

36

44

44

-

-

-

-

-

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COMPOSITE NATIONAL RANKINGS (CNR) CRITERIA: CB360′s 100-point Composite National Rankings formula currently is centered around 15 core ingredients and in upcoming weeks will include upwards of 20 different factors – ultimately combining a diverse collection of “experts” (ranging from coaches, various media, computer calculations and projections) – to help provide a preview of teams that could be in the running for the 2011 NCAA Championship field (hypothetically 50 teams, plus 14 others from lower-rated automatic-bid conferences – those teams will be projected in upcoming CNR updates).

Teams receive points based on their standings in each poll/rating/projection (60 pts for #1; 59 for #2, etc.). For polls involving voting points (coaches and CB) and the RPI ratings, the CNR adjusts to reward teams that have larger margins in the voting/point totals (whereas two teams with nearly the same voting-point total will be closer in the CNR allotment for that poll). Note that strength-of-schedule typically is factored into RPI formulations … thus the actual SOS numbers currently are not used in the CNR when RPI already are in the mix. For the NCAA field projections, teams are awarded CNR points based on their respective seedings, “last in” and “last out,” etc.

Currently, the 15 polls/ratings/projections listed below are averaged, with 40 points then are added to each total in order to yield the 100-point benchmark. The CB360 Composite National Rankings will add factors to the formula throughout the 2011 season, with the additions to include various RPI/power rankings, NCAA Tournament projections and a late-season bonus/penalty for record over the past-10 games.